Blue Jays Winter tour thread

[Angrioter]

BlueJays announce the annual Winter Tour with stops in Oshawa, Kingston, Peterborough, St. Catharines, London and Mississauga.

 

 

A. Lind, S. Delabar, J. Thole, C. Rasmus, B. Morrow, D. McGowan, E. Rogers, T. Redmond, A. Gose, John Gibbons to take part. #BlueJays

[NorthOf49]

No stops outside of Ontario? Weird and disappointing... if you're not actually touring the country then replace it with a 'JaysFest' event at the RC, which is what other teams do. People living in these cities don't have much trouble getting to the occasional game.

[Dylan]

No stops outside of Ontario? Weird and disappointing... if you're not actually touring the country then replace it with a 'JaysFest' event at the RC, which is what other teams do. People living in these cities don't have much trouble getting to the occasional game.

 

Too bad they don't go country wide.. probably have a tough time getting players on board to travel great periods of time during the offseason

[mitchf]

See you in Peterborough.

[KingKat]

No stops outside of Ontario? Weird and disappointing... if you're not actually touring the country then replace it with a 'JaysFest' event at the RC, which is what other teams do. People living in these cities don't have much trouble getting to the occasional game.

 

Hopefully they will annnounce more dates because otherwise they kind of wussed out on the whole "tour" concept.

[eastcoastjaysfan]

That's lame as s***. They got huge crowds all over the country last year.

[Angrioter]

BIlly Butler should buy a coat, He'll replace Lind in the Tour.

[L54]

Agreed. I know people who travelled 5 hours to go to Saskatoon or Winnipeg last year just for this.

[KingKat]

If you don't want to do a proper tour then don't do a tour. Don't piss on the fans and tell them it's raining.

[KingKat]

This may give credence to the belief that new management has tightened the purses. We've always assumed that AA had roughly 15 million to play with but maybe he's had the rug pulled out from under him. His inactivity may be linked to only being able to do NBA style trades. No free agent signings, no taking on payroll in trades.

 

Why would you do such a half-ass tour unless you're being cheap? This is suspicous.

[Angrioter]

Thames was full of steroids and didn't hit.

 

http://blogimages.thescore.com/mlb/files/2012/01/large1.jpg

Casualidad!!. The 3 dresses in blue are out.

[Sammy225]

Buddy of mine was in The peg last year when they were there and it was a HUGE turn out. Maybe they did not want to do the cross Canada thing again which I think is a huge mistake.

[HERPDERP]

Yup, very odd that they don't have any locations outside of Ontario.

 

Was it the issue of getting players to come on board all across?

 

If I recall last year they had at least 3 players at each stop, with different ones at each location.

 

Maybe this one they'll have all those players in each location. Nice to see Rasmus and Gose be there again.

[Sammy225]

I was there, it was great time. Me and my dad waited in line for 5 hours...then when we got to the front of the line they told us "No more people after (the people in front of us)"

 

I was mad

 

Ya kind of glad I did not make the 2 hour trip east. It would have been all for not I heard the lineup was just stupid lol.

[Atothe]

What were the tv ratings like outside of ontario last year. The Jays like shooting themselves in the foot. Sloppy mangement

[guylaroche5]

i live in mississauga weeeeee

 

how are these events anyway? do you actually get to talk with the players for more than a minute or is it like waiting in line at the DMV?

[eastcoastjaysfan]

i live in mississauga weeeeee

 

how are these events anyway? do you actually get to talk with the players for more than a minute or is it like waiting in line at the DMV?

 

I don't think having a convo with any of these guys would be overly stimulating.

 

What am I going to talk to Colby Rasmus about? Likely either his hair or his tractors.

[NorthOf49]

Ya kind of glad I did not make the 2 hour trip east. It would have been all for not I heard the lineup was just stupid lol.

Btw, the phrase is actually "all for naught."

[Abomination]

Reading between the lines here, I'd say it means that Rogers is happy with the tv numbers and worried about physical butts in the seats next year.

[TheHurl]

Oshawa, Peterborough and Mississauga are all easy transit to the games. Stupid!

[jaysfan2014]

They're coming to Kingston too. Should've stopped in Belleville too.. there's a bus company there in Kingston (with offices in Belleville) that frequently offers bus trips to Blue Jays games.

 

Also consider that these players are likely busy training during the offseason and are too busy to do winter tours like this. After that bad year last season, they're more likely preparing for 2014.